Variable

A new necklace design of mine...
www.aprilkawaoka.etsy.com

Leandro Erlich

My architecture cousin spent time in Japan last year and she kept an amazing photo log of her travels. One installation that I was particularly impressed by was the Swimming Pool in the 21st Century Museum of Art in Kanazawa by Leandro Erlich.

http://www.leandroerlich.com.ar/

I was also excited to discover that he will be exhibiting at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) this February 2010!

Yellow Treehouse

While perusing design magazines yesterday, I came across the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand.

Pacific Environments Architects Ltd. were commissioned by Yellow Pages to create the treehouse with the help of sourcing products & services through Yellow Pages.


Concept:
"The tree-house concept is reminiscent of childhood dreams and playtime, fairy stories of enchantment and imagination . It’s inspired through many forms found in nature -the chrysalis/cocoon protecting the emerging butterfly/moth, perhaps an onion/garlic clove form hung out to dry. It is also seen as a lantern, a beacon at night that simply glows yet during the day it might be a semi camouflaged growth, or a tree fort that provides an outlook and that offers refuge.The plan form also has loose similarities to a sea shell with the open ends spiralling to the centre ."

http://www.pacificenvironments.co.nz/newsarticles/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=Middle/focusModuleID=3655/overideSkinName=newsArticle-full.tpl

Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen transforms a simple material like paper into the extraordinary...
Visit his website:

http://www.petercallesen.com

latest earrings designs

geometria

peachy keen

These are a couple of my most recent earring designs!
They are made out of thicker gauge wire for stretched earlobes.
I usually wear hoops through my 6 ga plugs but I wanted other options
and thought others might too!
Check em out in my Etsy shop!

Stephanie Metz

A couple years ago when I first saw Stephanie Metz's felted sculptural forms,
it was love at first sight. Her work is filled with emotional elegance, humor, craftsmanship, and above all, honesty.

visit http://stephaniemetz.com/

to see more of her incredible work.

reminder...

Can't see the forest for the trees